LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

WAITING-ROOM AT THE ASSIZE COURT. (_frontispiece_)

"YOU SHOULD GIVE HIM AN ANSWER, DEAR, ONE WAY
OR THE OTHER." (Chapter II)

"I THOUGHT I SHOULD CATCH YOU IDLE JUST AT THIS
MOMENT," SAID THE CLERGYMAN. (Chapter VI)

MR. FENWICK CAME ROUND FROM FARMER TRUMBULL'S
SIDE OF THE CHURCH, AND GOT OVER THE STILE
INTO THE CHURCHYARD. (Chapter VIII)

"I HOPE IT WILL BE ALL RIGHT NOW,
MR. FENWICK," THE GIRL SAID. (Chapter XI)

"HOW DARE YOU MENTION MY DAUGHTERS?" (Chapter XVII)

"IT IS ALL BLANK PAPER WITH YOU?" (Chapter XVIII)

"I HAVE COME TO SAY A WORD, IF I CAN,
TO COMFORT YOU." (Chapter XXIII)

"CARRY," HE SAID, COMING BACK TO HER, "IT
WASN'T ALL FOR HIM THAT I CAME." (Chapter XXV)

PARSON JOHN AND WALTER MARRABLE. (Chapter XXIX)

MARY LOWTHER WRITES TO WALTER MARRABLE. (Chapter XXXIII)

SITE OF MR. PUDDLEHAM'S NEW CHAPEL. (Chapter XXXVIII)

"DO COME IN, HARRY." (Chapter XXXVIII)

"I DARE SAY NOT," SAID MR. QUICKENHAM. (Chapter XLII)

SUNDAY MORNING AT DUNRIPPLE. (Chapter XLIV)

"WHO ARE YOU, SIR, THAT YOU SHOULD
INTERPRET MY WORDS?" (Chapter XLVII)

CARRY BRATTLE. (Chapter LII)

"IF I MAY BIDE WITH YOU,--IF I MAY
BIDE WITH YOU--." (Chapter LIII)

MR. QUICKENHAM'S LETTER DISCUSSED. (Chapter LV)

SHE HAD BROUGHT HIM OUT A CUP OF COFFEE. (Chapter LVIII)

"IT'S IN HERE, MUSTER FENWICK,--IN HERE." (Chapter LXIII)

"OH, FATHER," SHE SAID, "I WILL BE GOOD." (Chapter LXVI)

THE DRAWING-ROOM AT TURNOVER CASTLE. (Chapter LXXII)

THE VICAR OF BULLHAMPTON.

CHAPTER I.

BULLHAMPTON.

[Illustration]

I am disposed to believe that no novel reader in England has seen the
little town of Bullhampton, in Wiltshire, except such novel readers
as live there, and those others, very few in number, who visit it
perhaps four times a year for the purposes of trade, and who are
known as commercial gentlemen. Bullhampton is seventeen miles from
Sal